| If your learners have any high-tech imaging devices like | | | | 4. Different Viewpoints |
| a cell phone with photo-taking capability, a digital | | | | How can you photograph something from the |
| camera or they have a digital camcorder, you can | | | | viewpoints of over, under, around, through, on, beside, |
| assign them one of these six diverse high visual impact | | | | behind, across from or between? Let your EFL |
| projects to help them explore not only their | | | | learners figure it all out and record their ideas. Hopefully |
| high-technology devices, but boost their EFL (English as | | | | you'll get shots from worm's eye views to bird's eye |
| a foreign language) production skills as well. | | | | views and a plethora of views in between. |
| 1. A Scavenger Hunt | | | | 5. Photojournalism |
| Assign your English as a Foreign Language learners to | | | | For this multi-faceted project learners shoot up to half |
| get digital photos of from 10 to 20 or so items. | | | | a dozen or so photographs to illustrate a short written |
| Locations of these items should be in or near the | | | | or spoken discourse to be presented in class. This |
| classroom and well within the school or institute facility | | | | could be in small groups, in pairs of learners or |
| campus. Photos of what, you might ask? Here are | | | | individually prepared by each EFL learner. |
| some suggested topics:o Close-upso Occupationso | | | | 6. Abstracts |
| Colorso Landscapeso Natureo Technology | | | | If it worked for Salvadore Dali and Pablo Picasso, why |
| 2. A Rainbow | | | | shouldn't it work for your EFL learners as well? They |
| No, not necessarily a real one, but EFL learners will | | | | will base their abstract photos on a particular color or |
| photograph illustrations of the different colors that can | | | | other theme selected either by you - or even better |
| be found in objects all around them. Start with the | | | | yet - by the learners. And oh yes, you might want to |
| basic colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, | | | | pre-approve themes and topics first. Why? To avoid |
| gray, brown, black and white. | | | | any incidences of "objectionable" or borderline obscene |
| 3. Verb Illustrations | | | | content of any type, that's why. |
| The idea here is to show verbs in a staged or natural | | | | So if your EFL learners have a cell phone with |
| photo. You can specify regular or irregular verbs like | | | | photo-taking capability, or they have a digital camera, |
| jump, run, play, talk, walk, sing, laugh, or whatever | | | | one of these diverse projects can help them to |
| others you may wish or leave the choice open to the | | | | sharpen their visual-spatial multiple intelligence abilities |
| English language learners. I've often found this last | | | | and aid in boosting their English as a foreign language |
| option to be more interesting and diverse for both the | | | | skills too. |
| EFL learners and me. | | | | |